"Moon Through Morning" (8" x 10"/framed/ $100) at Maestri Gallery, Bakersfield, CA)
"Van Gogh Forest" (SOLD) $200
San Marcos, Guanajuato ...In Chicago ($590) /available
Cabin in Winter available $200
Real del Catorce, San Luis Potosi / In Chicago/ for sale ($860)
Morning Glories SOLD - Michigan
"The Starry Night" (Peter Gullerud after Van Gogh) at Tutu Tango
New Double Landscape Painting "Thanksgiving Forest" ... pic 1... pic2 ... (closer shot) Both are 16"x20" canvases and framed in wood/ designed to be next to eachother $1900.00
I went to visit the priest who is friends with Martin Sheen and found your painting in his room. A long long time ago when I was traveling through Mexico with people from El Salvador and Guatemala we would have safe houses where we could stay the night. One of those houses was in a town called Matias Romero and the woman who let us stay there was Ma Chuy who was so incredibly poor but still opened her door to us each time we passed through her town. On my first visit I commented how pretty a piece of Indian pottery was that she had hanging on her wall. The next day I gathered up my little crew of people and we began our journey to the next stop. That night I opened my back pack and found the Indian pottery tucked inside. I learned from that point on never to comment as the Latin culture is to give you the item you admire. I also learned that while living in the convent when a young man arrived who had nothing - no socks - no underwear - torn jeans - torn shirt - not even a back pack but a plastic bag that contained a few items but not clothing. I went out and purchased for him jeans and a new shirt - the first time in his 29 years that he actually owned something new. Several weeks later his brother arrived and I was somewhat taken aback when he announced that his brother had just given him this beautiful new shirt. I learned a lesson then. In a different culture once you give someone something it belongs to them and it is their choice as to what they are going to do with it. I learned to let go when time after time I would give something to someone only to find that they had passed it on to someone else. I don't even know if the priest has read the back of the painting but he is at a Jesuit retreat and is dying of cancer and for some reason Martin felt that this painting would give his soul some peace.
- from my friend Linda Mortenson concerning the painting "He Without Weapons..."
